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This text synthesizes and organizes communication theories into an easily understandable framework. Each theory is presented in a similar way to provide a consistent model for students to work from.

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• Preface(p. xiii)
• Part I Foundations(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Communication Theory and Scholarship(p. 2)
• Defining Communication(p. 3)
• The Academic Study of Communication(p. 4)
• The Process of Inquiry in Communication(p. 7)
• A Basic Model of Inquiry(p. 7)
• Types of Scholarship(p. 7)
• How Scholars Work(p. 9)
• Notes(p. 11)
• Chapter 2 The Idea of Theory(p. 14)
• Dimensions of Theory(p. 16)
• Philosophical Assumptions(p. 16)
• Concepts(p. 19)
• Explanations(p. 19)
• Principles(p. 19)
• Nomothetic Theory(p. 20)
• Philosophical Assumptions(p. 21)
• Concepts(p. 22)
• Explanations(p. 22)
• Practical Theory(p. 23)
• Philosophical Assumptions(p. 24)
• Concepts(p. 24)
• Explanations(p. 25)
• Principles(p. 25)
• Evaluating Communication Theory(p. 26)
• Theoretical Scope(p. 26)
• Appropriateness(p. 26)
• Heuristic Value(p. 27)
• Validity(p. 27)
• Parsimony(p. 27)
• Openness(p. 27)
• So What Makes a Good Theory After All?(p. 28)
• Looking Forward(p. 28)
• Notes(p. 30)
• Chapter 3 Traditions of Communication Theory(p. 33)
• Framing Communication Theory(p. 34)
• The Semiotic Tradition(p. 35)
• Key Ideas of the Semiotic Tradition(p. 35)
• Variations in the Semiotic Tradition(p. 36)
• The Phenomenological Tradition(p. 37)
• Key Ideas of the Phenomenological Tradition(p. 37)
• Variations in the Phenomenological Tradition(p. 38)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 39)
• Key Ideas of the Cybernetic Tradition(p. 39)
• Variations in the Cybernetic Tradition(p. 41)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 41)
• Key Ideas of the Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 42)
• Variations in the Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 43)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 43)
• Key Ideas of the Sociocultural Tradition(p. 43)
• Variations in the Sociocultural Tradition(p. 44)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 45)
• Key Ideas of the Critical Tradition(p. 46)
• Variations in the Critical Tradition(p. 46)
• The Rhetorical Tradition(p. 49)
• Key Ideas of the Rhetorical Tradition(p. 49)
• Variations in the Rhetorical Tradition(p. 50)
• Expanding Contexts for Communication(p. 51)
• Notes(p. 57)
• Part II Theories(p. 63)
• Chapter 4 The Communicator(p. 64)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 66)
• Trait Theory(p. 66)
• Cognition and Information Processing(p. 69)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 75)
• Information-Integration Theory(p. 75)
• Consistency Theories(p. 78)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 82)
• Symbolic Interaction and the Development of Self(p. 82)
• Harre on Person and Self(p. 83)
• The Social Construction of Emotion(p. 85)
• The Presentational Self(p. 87)
• The Communication Theory of Identity(p. 88)
• Identity Negotiation Theory(p. 90)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 91)
• Standpoint Theory(p. 92)
• Identity as Constructed and Performed(p. 93)
• Queer Theory(p. 93)
• Applications & Implications(p. 94)
• Notes(p. 98)
• Chapter 5 The Message(p. 103)
• The Semiotic Tradition(p. 105)
• Symbol Theory: Susanne Langer(p. 105)
• Classical Foundations of Language(p. 106)
• Theories of Nonverbal Coding(p. 108)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 112)
• Speech Act Theory(p. 112)
• Kenneth Burke's Theory of Identification(p. 114)
• Language and Gender(p. 116)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 119)
• Action-Assembly Theory(p. 119)
• Strategy-Choice Models(p. 122)
• Message-Design Models(p. 126)
• Semantic-Meaning Theory(p. 129)
• The Phenomenological Tradition(p. 132)
• Paul Ricoeur(p. 133)
• Stanley Fish(p. 134)
• Hans-Georg Gadamer(p. 135)
• Applications & Implications(p. 137)
• Notes(p. 141)
• Chapter 6 The Conversation(p. 147)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 149)
• Managing Uncertainty and Anxiety(p. 149)
• Accommodation and Adaptation(p. 152)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 159)
• Symbolic Interactionism(p. 159)
• Symbolic-Convergence Theory(p. 162)
• Conversation Analysis(p. 164)
• Face-Negotiation Theory(p. 172)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 175)
• The Coordinated Management of Meaning(p. 175)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 180)
• Language-Centered Perspective on Culture(p. 181)
• Co-Cultural Theory(p. 181)
• Invitational Rhetoric(p. 182)
• Applications & Implications(p. 184)
• Notes(p. 188)
• Chapter 7 The Relationship(p. 194)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 197)
• Relational Patterns of Interaction(p. 197)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 199)
• Relational Schemas in the Family(p. 199)
• Social Penetration Theory(p. 202)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 204)
• Identity-Management Theory(p. 204)
• A Dialogical/Dialectical Theory of Relationships(p. 207)
• Communication Privacy Management(p. 212)
• The Phenomenological Tradition(p. 214)
• Carl Rogers(p. 214)
• Martin Buber(p. 216)
• Applications & Implications(p. 217)
• Notes(p. 220)
• Chapter 8 The Group(p. 224)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 227)
• Interaction Process Analysis(p. 227)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 228)
• Bona Fide Group Theory(p. 228)
• Input-Process-Output Models(p. 230)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 235)
• Structuration Theory(p. 236)
• Functional Theory(p. 239)
• Groupthink Theory(p. 242)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 243)
• Applications & Implications(p. 244)
• Notes(p. 247)
• Chapter 9 The Organization(p. 251)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 254)
• Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy(p. 254)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 255)
• The Process of Organizing(p. 256)
• Taylor's Co-orientation Theory of Organizations(p. 258)
• Network Theory(p. 260)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 262)
• Structuration Theory(p. 263)
• Organizational Control Theory(p. 265)
• Organizational Culture(p. 268)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 271)
• Dennis Mumby's Discourse of Suspicion(p. 272)
• Deetz on Managerialism and Organizational Democracy(p. 273)
• Gender and Race in Organizational Communication(p. 274)
• Applications & Implications(p. 277)
• Notes(p. 280)
• Chapter 10 The Media(p. 285)
• The Semiotic Tradition(p. 288)
• Jean Baudrillard and the Semiotics of Media(p. 288)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 289)
• Medium Theory(p. 289)
• The Agenda-Setting Function(p. 293)
• Social Action Media Studies(p. 295)
• The Sociopsychological Tradition(p. 298)
• The Effects Tradition(p. 298)
• Cultivation Theory(p. 299)
• Uses, Gratifications, and Dependency(p. 300)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 303)
• Public Opinion and the Spiral of Silence(p. 303)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 305)
• Branches of Critical Media Theory(p. 305)
• Feminist Media Studies(p. 306)
• Bell hooks's Critique of Media(p. 306)
• Applications & Implications(p. 308)
• Notes(p. 310)
• Chapter 11 Culture and Society(p. 315)
• The Semiotic Tradition(p. 317)
• Linguistic Relativity(p. 317)
• Elaborated and Restricted Codes(p. 318)
• The Cybernetic Tradition(p. 321)
• The Diffusion of Information and Influence(p. 321)
• The Phenomenological Tradition(p. 323)
• Cultural Hermeneutics(p. 323)
• The Sociocultural Tradition(p. 324)
• Ethnography of Communication(p. 325)
• Performance Ethnography(p. 328)
• The Critical Tradition(p. 329)
• Modernism(p. 330)
• Postmodernism(p. 337)
• Poststructuralism and the Work of Michel Foucault(p. 342)
• Postcolonialism(p. 343)
• Applications & Implications(p. 346)
• Notes(p. 348)
• Continuing the Conversation Theorizing Your World(p. 353)
• Bibliography(p. 356)
• Index(p. 389)